Senior Frontend Consultant
Location: GB, LND, 
Department: Expert Services

Company profile:
We have created the world’s leading lean customer experience platform – its not just us that think that, Gartner does too. Backbase has been consistently placed in ‘Visionary’ quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Software and, in 2014, was recognized as the most visionary portal vendor.The Backbase Customer Experience Platform (CXP) has been designed to help organize, create, and manage deeply relevant customer experiences across all channels, on any device and combines the latest innovations in customer experience design (UX) with next generation technologies to deliver an unbeatable digital experience.The Backbase team is made up of more than 200 consultant, technology and usability professionals, with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Atlanta and Moscow. There’s plenty of more information about us as a company and our products on our website; please also view our “Working at Backbase” video which we have just published on YouTube.Check out the video hereIf you’d like to join us we’d love to hear from you. 

Job description:
The teamThe Senior Frontend Consultant is part of the Expert Services (ES) team. ES is a team of specialist with the right level of skills and experience to make sure that our product is implemented successfully at our customers.Our consultants work with partners and customers to ensure our customers successfully achieve their goals. This will mean you will develop, teach, support and lead teams in delivering enterprise solutions.Additionally ES provides training and implementation support services to our customers and partners. You will report to the Operations Manager ES. The goalBackbases roots are in making solutions that are UX focused with high impact visual effect. This means our Frontend specialists will be creating new and unique web applications with a heavy focus on javascript client based architecture. Apart from developing enterprise solutions, you will also work on short and fast paced Proof of Concepts and demo projects, showing off the versatility and functionally of our product to potential customers around the world.During our pilot and implementation projects you will be part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary international team. You work closely with our clients, architects and backend consultants to implement complex and modern web applications based on Object Oriented architecture and applying solid programming patterns without loosing the creativity aspect of the work in hand. Our Senior Frontend Consultants do a wide variety of work including client training and best practices consulting, frontend technical design, and application development on high quality standards.Backbase uses implementation partners when doing full implementations of the product for clients. In your role and as member of Expert Services you are the expert frontend consultant responsible for the guidance and coaching of our partners’ frontend consultants.Most project work is done in the Backbase office; however, some project executions are done at the client site worldwide. Therefore, since our product is sold worldwide, you sometimes have to travel and work abroad for periods ranging from a few days up to a few weeks.

Requirements:
Your profileWe are looking for motivate candidates that show us:The ability to lead;The ability to architect frontend applications;Good presentation skills;Training and coaching skills.Technically were are looking for excellent experience in:Working as a full time client frontend (lead) developer (javascript, css, html);Knowledge in JavaScript application development;Building using patterns (MVC, widgets, modular);Using modern JS frameworks and Api's;Style and UX skills;Providing analytical support to customer challenges and alternative solutions.

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